Mindy Friddle

HER BEST SELF is Mindy Friddle’s third novel. Her previous novel, SECRET KEEPERS, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. THE GARDEN ANGEL, her debut novel, was a SIBA bestseller and selected for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers. The South Carolina Arts Commission awarded Mindy a prose fellowship, and she has twice won the state’s Fiction Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson and lives on Edisto Island, South Carolina.